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Ernst Young got up early that day.
Like his great-great-grandfather, he was obsessed with uncovering the nature of light and electrons, a nature elusive, coquettish, and unattainable like Edelweiss.
In 1801, Thomas Young had devised the double-slit experiment to try to demonstrate the wave nature of light, in contrast to Isaac Newton’s proposal that it was particle-like.
Ernst thought that perhaps the problem had arisen from the naivety of both scientists’ thinking. In reality, his great-great-grandfather’s deduction of the existence of waves, and Newton’s of particles, was a trick played by nature. Neither waves nor particles existed. There was something else that manifested differently depending on the experiment. It was like day and night: the same Earth spinning, but revealing itself in different ways. What Ernst sought was not one or the other, but that which remained hidden behind both disguises.
Ondículas
Ernst Young se levantó temprano aquel día.Como su tatarabuelo, estaba obsesionado con desenmascarar la naturaleza de la luz y de los electrones, una naturaleza esquiva, coqueta e inalcanzable como Edelweiss.
Thomas Young había ideado en 1801 el experimento de la doble rendija, para tratar de demostrar la naturaleza ondulatoria de la luz, frente a la propuesta de Isaac Newton que postulaba su naturaleza corpuscular.
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